I couldn’t sleep last night and I rewatched this super short really bizarre anime, Jingai-san No Yome. Loosely translated means “Wives of Non-Human Creatures” except the “wives” are some random guys in high school. Apparently some random creature (usually referred to as non-gender-specific) Can come in, pick a random dude out of a year book and demand he be his wife and then… They just agree to it and move in together. Most of the non-human-husbands don’t speak but they’re sentient, I guess? The newly married couples are very supportive of each other and take care of each other like partners and give each other Valentine gifts. I don’t know. It cracks me up. It’s really really weird.
This one is named Fuwai and when he’s stressed he loses his hair which is all the time so he wears a hat or a little tube top to cover his bald spot. Don’t bring up his bald spot or he will curse you to lose some hair too. Idk.
It’s totally family friendly although I think it’s somehow considered lightly suggested gay romance? Except… They never say the creatures are male or female? Except this one guy who has two “husbands” (although for some reason I think they’re supposed to be considered one creature?) who seem to be cyclops girls? It doesn’t make sense. I just looked it up on YouTube. I recommend if you just wanna be really confused.
My daughters are 27 and 24, so they can definitely handle the weird and not-family-friendly at this point.
When my youngest was still living at home she would tell me all about some weird anime show she’d just found. I sometimes was sure she was making it all up.
I watched a few, but I had to stop. I hurt from laughing so hard. These characters are so hilarious.
It’s just kind of off the wall. I’ll have to watch a few more in a bit.
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I ended up watching the whole series…just because it was so odd and I was trying to figure out some cultural things. I follow a young Japanese man’s adventures on FB and he is a lot like those young men (but not high school age!). I often see comments about how he would make a good “wife”. I like that the term is not gender specific and neutralized by the non-human “husbands”. Everyone wants to be cared for and loved seems to be the theme.
Also totally sounds like something my younger daughter would be into…
